MAKE Editor-in-Chief Mark Frauenfelder made this stringed instrument last weekend and posted it on Dinosaurs and Robots: My goal was to make an electric string instrument that uses drone tuning. I don’t know anything about music theory, but drone tuning is a way to tune an instrument that makes it sound good no matter what […]
Bracer Jack has a nice modeling tutorial on the Iron Man helmet, especially focused on techniques for modeling hard surfaces. He even offers the files containing his 3DS Max schematic drawings to get you started. Ironman Helmet Modeling by Bracer Jack
Hannah Perner-Wilson is working on some really interesting sensing experiments including this potentiometer that’s controlled by sliding a large metal ball bearing around two conductive traces.
OMG! If I’d found this gem glowing underneath the aluminum Christmas tree when I was a kid, I’d have sprained something in my geekly excitement. I think I’d sprain something now… my wallet. This kit sold for a rather steep-at-the-time $50 and goes for 100 times that now. But I’d still be tempted. I think […]
Syuzi at Fashioning Technology points us to this project by Brett Renfer which uses capacitive sensing via conductive thread and Arduino to make this button organ. In the Maker Shed: Lilypad E-Sewing Kit
One of the new features to make it into Flash 10 is the ability to generate software-based audio. There’s essentially an event callback that will trigger during audio playback that lets you fill an input buffer full of wavelength samples. I’m looking forward to seeing what types of generative music folks will be able to […]
Bill VanLoo used the Vibrobot project from MAKE, Volume 10 with his students at Honey Creek Community School. The 4/5 technology classes built Vibrobots for one of their project this year. Vibrobots are small electric bug-like creatures that are built from a small metal or plastic enclosure (think mint tin), a motor, and some ingenuity. […]
